There are just days to go before Chinese New Year, the biggest celebration on China's calendar, when the entire country shuts down for a few days of food, fireworks … and family.

Many enjoy the holiday, but millions of unmarried people merely endure it.

In the basement of an office tower in downtown Beijing, a cloud of gloom hovers over the canteen at lunch time. Groups of young women huddled over large bowls of noodles look depressed when asked about the February's impending Chinese New Year holiday.

If you're a single woman in a country with a one child rule and a blatant favouritism of male issue resulting in an unnaturally high male population ratio, then clearly your lonesome relationship status is entirely voluntary._________________

juniper wrote:

you experience political reality dilation when travelling at american political speeds. it's in einstein's formulas. it's not their fault.